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ACEP Now: Vol 33 – No 08 – August 2014References
- Groth H, House H, Overton R, et al. Board certified emergency physicians comprise a minority of the emergency department workforce in Iowa. West J Emerg Med. 2013;14:186.
- Ginde AA, Sullivan AF, Carmago CA Jr. National study of the emergency physician workforce, 2008. Ann Emerg Med. 2009;54:349-359.
Dr. Smith is chair of the ACEP Careers Section and medical director of the emergency department at Cookeville Regional Medical Center in Cookeville, Tennessee.
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One Response to “Open ACEP Membership to All Emergency Physicians”
August 25, 2014
Anoop KumarWhat’s missing in this conversation is the topic of what the core skill is in emergency medicine. Consummate emergency physicians are masters of management as a whole, not just differential diagnosis or doing procedures. Leadership and management define the core of EM, but our residency programs and professional societies have so far not embraced this philosophy. Because we haven’t done so, we are a fractured specialty. We argue over who really is an EP and who deserves to be boarded without being clear on who we are to begin with.
If we embrace this philosophy and act on it, we will take our specialty to new heights as leaders in healthcare. It is something we sorely need in today’s healthcare climate.
I commented extensively on this is an article written last year:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/09/leadership-management-define-core-emergency-medicine.html
Cheers,
Anoop Kumar, MD